Rock’s most dangerous band: why Rammstein’s incendiary retelling of history terrifies Germany

Rock’s most dangerous band: why Rammstein’s incendiary retelling of history terrifies Germany - Telegraph.co.uk

Posted: 01 Jul 2019 12:00 AM PDT

In March of this year, the Berlin metal sextet Rammstein unveiled the video for the song Deutschland, from their then forthcoming untitled studio album. The band's first recorded output for a decade, the clip - which has attracted more than 40 million views on YouTube - takes a journey through German history from the Roman age to the present day, via the First World War and the Hindenburg disaster. It features brutal fight scenes, cannibalism, and a scene in which a woman gives birth to a dog.

Declining to avert its gaze, or even to blink, the film also includes scenes set in a recreated concentration camp.

For some in the Fatherland, this was all a bit much. Felix Klein, the country's Commissioner...